If you’re thinking you’d order an iPad 2 online today and then receive it in three to five days as it was originally listed on Apple’s site, we have some bad news for you: Now it’s going to take two to three weeks to get your iPad 2.
Looking at Apple’s online store, every version of the iPad now has “ships 2-3 weeks” next to it. So if you’re one who must have instant gratification, your best bet might be to go to a Best Buy, Target or Walmart to pick one up, where they go on sale at 5 p.m. local time.
We just called a typical Best Buy in the central U.S., and store employees said they would be handing out tickets at 4:30 p.m., which are good until 6 p.m., after which time shoppers can snag an iPad 2 on a first-come, first-served basis.
Calling Target, store employees responded that they only had a few iPad 2s in stock but thought they were going to get more. Both stores said people have been calling about the iPads for a couple of days, so they expect lines to form.
When we called Walmart, a store employee said they have four black iPad 2s and no white ones. The employee said “no one has called to ask about the iPad 2″ and recommended that we show up at 4:00 p.m. and wait around.
If you go to one of 236 Apple retail stores, you might be standing in line for a while, but there’s probably more inventory available. We’re keeping an eye on the lines at Apple stores, where in Manhattan they’re already starting to form. A college student this morning sold her first spot in line for $900 at the flagship Apple Store.
Calls to two local Apple stores resulted in one of the stores referring us to Apple’s website via a recorded message, and the other, after a lengthy hold, couldn’t tell us how many iPad 2s they had in stock. They did admit they had no white models but said they would have some by 5:00 p.m.
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